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London County Council Housing Estates.
The Borough Council continue to avail themselves of the preferential treatment which
is given to bad cases of overcrowding and special hardship when recommended to the London
County Council. Sincc the initiation of this scheme in January, 1925, the number of St.
Pancras families who have been housed under this arrangement up to December, 1933, is 887.
It will, of course, be appreciated that, in addition, a number of St. Pancras families make direct
application to the County Council, and in many cases accommodation is obtained by this
method.
Housing Schemes in the Borough.
The Borough Council now control eight estates in the Borough, with a total of 709
flats comprising 2,295 rooms.
The London County Council are proceeding with their scheme in Ossulston Street,
and, during the course of the year, Levita House has been practically completed. It is
understood that the estate, when completed, will comprise 481 tenements, and there are
already 310 flats in occupation.
The Commissioners of Crown Lands have completed an additional block of 98 flats in
Cumberland Market, known as Windsor House, and up to the present 344 flats have been
erected, consisting of 1,017 rooms. It is understood that further blocks of tenements will be
erected almost immediately.
The St. Pancras House Improvement Society have completed a further block of 47
tenements in Bridgewater Street, known as St. Nicholas' Flats, and contemplate providing
a further block of 25 flats in Drummond Street almost immediately.
Section V.-INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
(a) MILK SUPPLY.
Cowsheds.— There are now no licensed cowsheds in the Borough.
Dairies and Milkshops.—The Milk and Dairies Order, 1926, requires the Sanitary Authority
to register all persons in their district carrying on the trade of cowkeeper or dairyman, and
also all premises which are used as dairies.
The term "dairy" does not include a shop from which milk is not supplied otherwise
than in properly closed and unopened receptacles in which it was delivered to the shop, and
therefore such premises do not require to be registered, but any person selling milk in sealed
bottles or other receptacles must be registered as a purveyor of milk.
Section 2 of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, gives the Local Authority
power to refuse registration or to remove from the register any retail purveyor of milk, if they
are satisfied that the public health is likely to be endangered by any act or default of such person.
Thirty-eight applications for registration under the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926,
were received and granted during the year (37 retail and 1 wholesale).
Thirty applications in respect of itinerant vendors were also received and granted.